From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 01:25:00 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87fv5kve43.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87wpywvlyu.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434928824 29632 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2015 23:20:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 23:20:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 22 01:20:17 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z6oXB-0008DO-53 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 01:20:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37552 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z6oXA-0006FQ-9a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:20:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 53 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:O/NXsduNluhIhaaYCWb8aVCtmhw= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212794 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105078 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung ;-) > > (a certificate of inability to work Are you sure that is a *German* word? :) > NB: despite of all the fun we make of the German > language (cf. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlATOHGj9EY), > I really like it. (Also, before anyone gets > offended: I have nothing against joking about my > language, or my compatriots, or my fellow Catholics, > provided that the joke is good. AFAIK, most jokes > about Poles are rather poor How about: When do you drink your last milk in Poland? ... The day the cow sit down. *ouch* Or: What do Polish women get after they marry, which is long and often difficult to handle? ... A family name. XHA XHA XHA XHA! If you read the autobio of Steve Wozniak, which I think is this: @book{iwoz, title = {iWoz}, author = {Steve Wozniak}, publisher = {Norton \& Company}, year = 2006, ISBN = 0393061434 } you get many such jokes. Woz had not-that-distant roots in Poland. When he was into the phreak scene he put up a telephone "service" to which you could call for Polish jokes. The thing got so popular eventually the US-Polish association called him and asked him to drop it as it put their country in bad light. Woz then asked if it was OK if he just replaced Poland for Italy. That, they said, would be OK. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573